Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Multiple Openings)

Company Description

About the Role

Role: Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Multiple Openings)
Location: San Francisco, California, United States - 94107
Position Type:  Full Time + Benefits
Transfer: H1-B transfers accepted, min. 24 months left on H1-B or when I-140 is approved   
Sponsorship of new visas: NO

Our direct client is seeking Senior Software Engineer - Backend. 

• As a Senior Engineer, you provide leadership from inside a project. 
• You use your wealth of experience to find creative solutions to hard technical problems and elevate team practices. 
• You work closely with other technical leaders to champion the quality of our product, mentor engineers, and build a highly available, performant system that scales globally with our fast-growing business.
• As an engineering team, we value small cross-functional teams with a deep understanding of the technical stack. 
• We build, test, and operate the services we build, including having engineers participate in on-call rotation.
• We believe that empathy, curiosity, and humility enable healthy and respectful disagreements, which allow us to achieve creative breakthroughs.

If this sounds like you, apply now!

Job Description

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Build a secure, highly available cloud system that reliably ingests, quotes, and tracks millions of parts as they are manufactured around the world. 
• Because we handle a significant amount of pre-production intellectual property, it is critical that we protect our customer’s data even as we move it across the globe.
• Set the standard for building high-quality software. 
• This is 100% a hands-on role where you will tackle complex problems, design clean solutions, write clear code (including tests!), and lead by example. 
• We are looking for folks willing to jump into our most complex modules and solve our trickiest problems.
• Promote best practices for working together to frequently deliver changes to production. Software development is a team sport, and we look to all our engineers to help one another achieve team goals, ensure uptime for our services, and give/receive feedback on how we can improve individually and collectively.
• Tackling a wide range of technical systems and challenges. 
• We’re growing fast as a product and business, so the type of work will be dynamic and diverse. 
• Examples of things you may work on include implementing token-based authorization and access control, developing algorithms to optimize job matching to manufacturing partners, building graceful failover between two third-party shipping services, and optimizing database queries to scale our backend services.
   

Qualifications

What We Need

• Expertise in modern JavaScript (ES6), TypeScript, NodeJS
• Experience with building and deploying applications in public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure
• A strong, hands-on technical track record of delivering public-facing APIs (REST, GraphQL)
• Extensive experience working with scalable cloud services, particularly with event-based asynchronous programming frameworks like Node.js or distributed queues
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts like caching, traceability, security, databases, sharding, and regional deployments
• Proven ability to be self-directed and operate effectively in a fast-paced and high-energy environment
• Nice to have experience in Enterprise-class AuthZ/AuthN (SSO, OAuth2, OpenIDConnect and etc.)     

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.